Define the Schedule and Parameters for the Scheduled Process

Publish the item objects using the Product Hub Publication Job scheduled process.

1. From the Scheduled Processes work area, click Schedule New Process.

2. Open the Product Hub Publication Job schedule process.

3. Define the Publish Items parameter as Yes to publish your items. You need to configure all the parameters in the Process Details dialog box. Here are the most relevant parameters:

   Schedule Process Parameters	Description
   Spoke System	Name of the external spoke system where you want to publish items, item classes, or catalog information.
   Publish from Date	Publishes records of objects from a start date. Specify the start date.
   Publish to Date	Publishes records of objects to an end date. Specify an end date. Use this parameter with the Publish from Date parameter.
   Process Sequentially	Specifies the publication jobs to run sequentially when there is more than one job. Otherwise, the jobs run in parallel with each other.

4. (Optional) Click the Advanced button and schedule the process to run at a later date and time.

5. Submit the scheduled process.

   The scheduled process publishes the objects of each spoke system.

Publication processes can be a recurring or a one-time event. Let's say you're setting up an integration to a legacy application, where you're publishing new items that are created in Oracle Product Hub. You would want to set up the scheduled publication job to run each night.

The scheduling frequency is based on the integration requirements and the availability of the applications that integrate with Product Hub to receive and process the data. For example, you may have a situation where Oracle Product Hub is feeding new item information to an ERP application. The application is available only for a brief period to accept the feed. So, you must plan the schedule process accordingly.

You should review the log files for additional details:

• The log file for the Product Hub Preprocessing Publication Job scheduled process contains the parameters that were used to run the job, plus record counts of what's published.

• The log file for the Product Hub Publication Job scheduled process contains the identifier dDocName (which corresponds to the Content ID in Oracle WebCenter Content) and the name of the compressed file containing the publication files.

You can view the errors identified during publication from the log files of the scheduled process.

• If an item record in the publication fails, the publication process doesn't publish the failed record but it does publish the remaining item records.

• The publication process updates the log file with additional information about the publication failure including the item number, rule name, and any error message that you have configured for the rule definition. Using this information, you can trace any publication errors and fix them.

• The publication log file also:

  • Contains additional information to clarify publication exceptions.

  • Displays rule exception messages that you have created during the rule definition.

  • Displays exception messages based on the exception type during publications.

  • Includes publication subjob exceptions.